58414 - Algebra and Geometry

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Marta Morigi
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: MAT/02
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Computer Science (cod. 8009)

    Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Philosophy (cod. 0957)

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course, students are supposed to have learnt some basic notions in abstract algebra (Euclidean algorithm and congruence relations) and in linear algebra. They will be able to solve linear systems and to study linear maps.

Course contents

Linear Systems

Matrices

Gaussian elimination

Real vector spaces and subspaces

Linear maps

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors

 Diagonalization of matrices

Modular arithmetic, congruence classes modulo n

Readings/Bibliography

Fioresi Rita, Morigi Marta, Introduzione all'algebra lineare, Edizioni CEA (2015)

Teaching methods

Lectures and exercises will be alternated in order to explain theoretical concepts through a large number of examples. Students will be asked to actively participate in the lessons, asking and answering questions.

Assessment methods

The exam is both written and oral. Students are admitted to the oral exam after passing the written exam with at least 16/30. If a student passes the written exam, he/she mast take the oral ezxam either in the same "appello" or in the following one. People who receive less than 8/30 in the written exam, cannot take the exam in the following "appello". If a stucdent does not pass the oral exam, he/she must repeat the written exam.
The final vote is not the result of the arithmetic mean between the written and oral tests but rather the result of an overall assessment of the preparation of
the student, based on the written test which has, therefore, a decisive weight. The subjects of the examination are all and only those of the lectures
and listed in the programme available in the Professor's web page dedicated to the course.

Teaching tools

Exercises and samples of exam texts will be given.

Links to further information

http://www.dm.unibo.it/~mmorigi/informatica/ag_17-18.html

Office hours

See the website of Marta Morigi